衛星在南印度洋發現122件漂浮物

Malaysia has disclosed new satellite images of 122 objects that were spotted near two earlier sets of debris in the southern Indian Ocean, providing the latest clue in the hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, writes Jeremy Grant in Kuala Lumpur.

馬來西亞公佈了在南印度洋發現122個物體的最新衛星照片，它們位於此前發現的兩組碎片附近。這爲搜尋失蹤的馬來西亞航空公司(Malaysia Airlines) MH370航班提供了最新線索。

The latest images, provided by Airbus Defence and Space, a division of France’s Airbus Group, showed the objects – between 1m and 23m in length – in an area of about 400 sq km, approximately 2,500km southwest of the Australian city of Perth.

最新圖片來自法國空客集團(Airbus Group)下屬的空客防務及航天公司(Airbus Defence and Space)。圖片顯示，這些物體的長度在1米至23米之間，散落在距澳大利亞城市珀斯西南約2500公里處一個大約400平方公里的海域。

“Some of the objects appeared to be bright, possibly indicating solid materials,” Hishammuddin Hussein, Malaysia’s defence and acting transport minister, told a daily briefing.

“一些物體看起來是反光的，可能表明它們是堅固材料，”馬來西亞國防部長和代理交通部長希沙姆丁•侯賽因(Hishammuddin Hussein)在每日通報會上表示。

The images had been taken on March 23, the same day Malaysia received earlier French satellite images. These, and a third set of Chinese images, were in about the same area of ocean.

圖片攝於3月23日，同日馬來西亞收到了之前法國衛星拍攝到的圖像。這些圖像和來自中國的一組圖像基本上拍攝的是同一片海域。

Improved weather conditions have allowed the Australian-led search for the missing jet to stretch into a ninth day.

由於氣象狀況改善，澳大利亞領頭的失蹤客機搜尋行動進入第9天。

The hunt involved 12 aircraft from Australia, China, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand and the US.

參與搜尋的有來自澳大利亞、中國、日本、韓國、新西蘭和美國的12架飛機。

Searchers are running out of time to locate the aircraft’s black box recorder, which is estimated to have 30 days of battery life.

留給搜尋人員尋找飛機黑匣子的時間越來越少。黑匣子的電池壽命估計只有30天。

The Malaysia Airlines aircraft disappeared on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8.

這架從吉隆坡飛往北京的馬航客機於3月8日失蹤。